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News With Images Over Geminispace
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THE Web has gotten its share of proxies and gateways (e.g. Invidious and Nitter); Gemini too is getting more and more of them, e.g. for YouTube videos and for GitHub repositories. I get my weather forecasts from Gemini every day, several times per day, and there are plenty of other, versatile, very good tools/capsules in Geminispace. It gets better all the time!
"The choice of GitHub for hosting is tasteless because we already saw how Microsoft treats tools like YouTube-DL if someone makes a mere threat of legal action."There are news relays that lost courage and shut down. There are other capsules that became extinct, likely for copyright reasons (threats or just fears). NewsWaffle, however, seem to be different. It's basically CGI, as per today's announcement (see ongoing discussion about this announcement). NewsWaffle is Free software, albeit hosted in Microsoft's proprietary trap (Gemini proxy), and hopefully it'll last. It's a lot better than any other news proxy/relay software I've seen. It supports and presents images too, as shown in the video above (I hadn't realised this until I recorded it).
This hopefully won't be today's sole post (I spent a lot of the day publishing 10 blog posts in my personal blog), but this post represents an exciting discovery. NewsWaffle is really an amazing tool. The choice of GitHub for hosting is tasteless because we already saw how Microsoft treats tools like YouTube-DL if someone makes a mere threat of legal action.
To me, personally, what makes NewsWaffle a game-changer is the support for images. ⬆